Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe San Francisco Chronicle’s Top 100 Restaurants List is Back
After six long years, The San Francisco Chronicle has revived its annual Top 100 Restaurants list. Critics MacKenzie Chung Fegan and Cesar Hernandez …
11 months, 1 week ago
Federal Funding Cuts Hit Cancer Research
Clinicians and scientists are sounding alarms as the Trump administration slashes budgets at federal health agencies, including the NIH, which is the…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
The Fallout of Trump’s Expansive Tariffs
The global economy and U.S. markets have been reeling since President Trump announced a sweeping package of tariffs on Wednesday. China retaliated la…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Zach Mack on Trying to Rescue His Father from ‘Alternate Realities’
Has someone you love ever been enmeshed in online conspiracy theories? Podcast host Zach Mack’s father fell deep into a rabbit hole and wagered Mack …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Movie “Freaky Tales” Is a Love Letter to 1980s Oakland
“Oakland in ‘87 was hella wild.” So begins the new movie “Freaky Tales,” which establishes its bonafides by having rap legend Too $hort as its narrat…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
How Poetry Serves Civic Life
Three California poet laureates, Fresno’s Joseph Rios, El Cerrito’s Tess Taylor and San Francisco’s former poet laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin, received…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
To Fold or Fight: Law Firms Weigh Risks of Trump Resistance
Willkie Farr & Gallagher, the law firm that employs former second gentleman Doug Emhoff, is among the latest to cut a deal with the Trump administrat…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Is ‘The Nerd Reich’ Taking Over the Government?
A group of Silicon Valley billionaires is causing chaos in the federal government by shuttering agencies, firing workers en masse and flouting legal …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Omar El Akkad’s New Book Critiques American Hypocrisy On the Gaza War
Journalist and writer Omar El Akkad has won acclaim for his novels “American War” and “What Strange Paradise,” and he’s now published his first non-f…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Immigration Reporter Nick Miroff on Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign
A Tufts University PhD student from Turkey remains in detention in Louisiana after masked, plainclothes ICE officers arrested her last week, as she w…
11 months, 2 weeks ago